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Achievement Report July 2015

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Continuing to build local partnerships

ObjectiveGVI Seychelles is working with local groups with similar missions to collaborate inreaching our goals in conservation

SummaryGVI Seychelles teams up with our local partners not only or our scienti!c work"but or other days o teambuilding" environmental education" and charityundraising#

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 The work we do at GVI Seychelles could not be done without support o our localpartners" whether directly or indirectly# $hile we can oten eel like we are in anisolated bubble here at Cap Ternay" living within a couple hundred meters o themarine park that we dive in so oten" we work in collaboration with manypartners throughout the year# In the case o our scienti!c partners" such as theSeychelles %ational &ark 'uthority (S%&')" the collaboration is a central part othe work we do" and the reason we are so lucky to dive in such great sites somany days a week# The data that we collect on our marine surveys" and thesubse*uent analysis on the health o northwest +ahe,s rees" is done on re*uest

o the S%&' and used to provide urther management o the area# Thispartnership has lasted more than a decade" since GVI Seychelles, inception in-../" and we hope that it will continue to do so or at least that long in theuture# To build upon the relationship and allow the GVI volunteers and S%&'sta0 to get to know each other" together we organi1ed a teambuilding day in mid

 2une# $e started the day by splitting up each group" sending hal o each toremove invasive vegetation and the others to our two beaches to clean up themultitude o plastic that washes ashore# $ith the winds increasing lately" moreand more plastic and other rubbish had been washing ashore into the &ort3aunay +arine %ational &ark on the south side o Cap Ternay" a0ectionatelycalled ,back beach, by the GVI team" causing a buildup o garbage on the beachand in the mangroves# In 4ay Ternay" a long beach with high tourist tra5c also

unortunately can oten mean a lot o garbage accumulating on the shore" butbetween the two beaches, teams we !lled our trusty truck to the brim with bagso garbage collected rom the road and shore# Sweaty and hungry" we returnedto base or S%&' &hillip,s amous" mouth6watering 447 east" ollowed by somecasual rounds o volleyball#

3ess than a week later" S%&' and GVI were back together at 4ay Ternay" ready tolaunch the ourth annual Rat Race or Rupees" a charity challenge undraiser insupport o the &resident,s Village Children,s 8ome# 9ach year at this time" ratsrom GVI sta0 and volunteers line up alongside those o S%&'" racing to andaround a mooring buoy several hundred meters into the bay" and back again#

 The event continues to grow in success" and teams are certainly improving theirtimes" with the winning S%&' team returning to the beach in less than hal anhour" an all time record: $hile unortunately teams rom other organi1ations

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were not able to gather teams and build rats this year" we hope that utureyears will bring more teams into the e*uation" which may even give GVI achance: $ell done to S%&' or reigning victorious (again) and to the winning GVIteam or pulling ahead o the others in the last -. meters:

GVI Seychelles also recently partnered up with the Green Islands ;oundation(GI;)" who has just concluded a year6long shark awareness campaign in theSeychelles# GI; joined us here at Cap Ternay with <= kids and young adults romthe &ort Glaud 9nvironment Club" or a day o educational lessons and activitieson sharks# GVI volunteers were split into three groups" each to ocus on di0erentaspects o sharks and their importance# The !rst group discussed the variousshapes o shark tails and teeth and what that means or the way they swim"hunt" and eat# 'nother group discussed the various sharks ound in theSeychelles and in what environments here they can be ound" as well as gettingthe kids to guess the si1es o species rom a white tip ree shark to bull shark to-. meter whale shark" while laying out a survey tape to drive the point home#

 The third group talked about the importance o sharks in the ood web" with aninteractive activity demonstrating the damage to the web that would arise roma disappearance o sharks" as well as removing some misconceptions about thethreat o sharks# 's a group we then ventured down to ,back beach, where thelittle lemon sharks will hide in the mangroves as pups in the ne>t ew months"beore heading o0 or a snorkel at &ort 3aunay# ?nortunately the visibility wastoo poor to e>plore much o the ree" but we still got to swim in the cool waterwith the kids and hopeully they will get to e>perience more o the ree soon:

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